Chi: Well, then. You girls packed?
Hannah/Miranda: Yup! When do we start school?
Chi: In the next Chapter. Can we start the chapter before someone comes and completely destroys the bit of sanity in this A/N?
Hikaru/Karou/Hannah/Miranda: Sure. Your getting boring.
Chi: Fffff. What have I done?!
"Hey Han?" Miranda said unpacking her clothes into her half of the closet. Han was Hanna's nick-name from when they were very little. People usually referred to them as either The Eika Twins or Mira and Han.
"Yes Mira?" Hannah asked calling Miranda by her own nick-name. Miranda was silent foe a moment causing Hannah to look over her shoulder at Miranda who had stopped putting up her laundry.
"... Nevermind. It's nothing." Miranda decided quickly. Hannah growled frustrated. It was either Miranda had a bad feeling like something was going to happen or after an incident when they were twelve was having a relapse in a depression problem she'd had since said incident. Hannah turned and grabbed Miranda's shoulders while glaring fiercely.
"What's wrong?!" Hannah demanded.
"I think we should drop this mission. Tell them we can't. Make up an excuse and do a make-up mission later just can we please let this mission go?!" Miranda pleaded. Hannah sighed and hugged her twin.
"Everything will be fine. We always are, aren't we? I promise nothing will happen to you." Hannah assure Miranda with a smile.
"No. I want to drop this mission. Something feels wrong about it. Were in the psycho-path's possible murder list. Even if we can defend ourselves there's something just wrong with this!" Miranda shook her head.
"We'll be fine. If something goes wrong then we'll drop it. I promise!" Hannah insisted. Miranda sighed in defeat.
"Fine. But if something happens don't come crying to me and you'll owe me a trip to the best café around!" Miranda declared annoyed at Hannah's stubbornness.
"Deal! But if I win you have to do a cover for a song as your entry for the Talent Show!" Hannah smiled comfortingly and evilly.
"You are evil. But fine! It's a bet!" Miranda agreed. "Hey, you wanna do some karaoke? I bet I can finally beat you at a song!" Miranda challenged.
"HAH! I laugh at your face! You can never beat me at music! It's my superpower!" Hannah laughed teasingly.
"AH! I'm wounded by your words! How can you treat me so cruelly?" Miranda turned with fake tears. Hannah grasped Miranda's hands.
"I didn't mean to hurt your feelings. I was just teasing. I won't do it again, just please don't be angry..?" Hannah pleaded with a sorry and worried look.
"Hannah, I could never stay angry at you for long! Don't leave my side ever! Please..?" Miranda exclaimed with wide eyes. Both knowing full well that their parents were watching.
"I promise!" Hannah embraced her twin with a smile. A devilish smile. Both were silent for a minute before laughing. "GOD, THAT WAS THE LONGEST WE'VE LASTED FOR MOM AND DAD!" Hannah laughed shaking and leaning on Miranda for support.
"YEAH! THERE EXPRESSIONS WERE PRICELESS!" Miranda roared with laughter. Michel had at some point gotten a bit to hot and fainted leaving Jonathan to cool her off. "MOM FAINTED!" Miranda held her stomach.
"We should totally do that at our school! I wanna see how everyone will react to it! For the first week or maybe two and then just break up the act. There reactions will be priceless!" Hannah suggested.
"I'll get my camera! I don't have any blackmail material for the people here yet!" Miranda reached for the second bag she had packed seeing as how Hannah had forgotten some of the necessity's. Hannah froze with a 'WTF' look.
"The first thing you think of is blackmail?" Hannah questioned with a raised eye brow.
"I'd prefer to be in control of the situation. Everyone I know, I have blackmail material for. And that includes you, mom, and dad." Miranda told her proudly and a matter-of-fact tone. Hannah's 'WTF' look intensified.
"Why on earth would you need blackmail material on ME?! I'm not going to backstab you! I never will!" Hannah yelled with anger leaking into her voice. Miranda froze at Hannah's tone. Michel woke up from the yell and both adults were ready to intervene.
"Don't you dare go there Hannah!" Miranda hissed with a dark glare. Crimson hiding itself barely under the deep purple eyes. Hannah sighed and rolled her eyes. "I know you won't directly hurt me! But someday, someone will force you one way or another to hurt me! It is best to prepare for something that might not ever come then for it to come unexpectedly and without protection." Miranda added with a growl.
"... I'm sorry. I shouldn't have said that." Hannah muttered before stalking off. Miranda was unsatisfied with Hannah's attitude and resisted the urge to lash out at her twin.
"Fine. If you want to play mean. We'll play mean." Miranda growled in a demonic tone. Her parents both knew what they were talking and thought back to the unfortunate news they had gotten a couple of years back. They winced at Miranda's wrath. Terrible thing when the twins fought with anyone. Especially each other. Miranda left for the park. Hannah sat in the kitchen nibbling on a bowl of ramen. Hannah paused with a sigh. After an accident that happened in France Miranda, hated not having control of any situation. Or at least know the most about said situation. She always had to be one step ahead. And in some way Hannah had the same want to be in control of the situation. She just had a harder time getting control then her sister. Hannah stood up and left to find her twin.
Miranda meanwhile at the park sat on a bench. She watched adults, teenagers, and children run and play. The older people sat on the benches watching their loved ones with smiles. Miranda couldn't help feeling old. Not every kid would just watch and observe. Her hand rubbed the left side of her neck feeling the two small scars. She had vowed not to let anyone hurt Hannah and did her best not to ever fight with her twin. It was a fight that had made the well between them. No matter how much they acted like one and shared everything between them Miranda and Hannah would always have a wall between them.
"Hmm? Are you okay?" A brown-haired girl passing by asked Miranda. Her eyes were a deep brown that could penetrate through any barrier it seemed. She was holding two grocery bags. Her hair was the same shade of brown as her eyes. Miranda blinked.
"Huh? I guess." Miranda shrugged losing interest.
"No you're not." The brown-haired girl insisted and sat down next to Miranda. "Your new, right?" She inquired.
"Uh, yeah. I just arrived from the USA." Miranda nodded slightly. Both intrigued by one another.
"I'm Haruhi Fujioka." The brown-haired girl shook Miranda's hand.
"Miranda Eika." Miranda told Haruhi.
"Isn't Eika Japanese?" Haruhi asked. Miranda laughed.
"Yeah! My dad's, step-sister, real mother's, husband was Japanese. It's a mouth full, wouldn't you agree?" Miranda joked. "I'm actually just staying here temporarily for what was SUPPOSED to be my vacation from my parent's company. But stupid people keep throwing all sorts of crap at me and now I got into a fight with my sister. Stupid, ridiculous adults." Miranda complained.
"Company?" Haruhi looked Miranda right in the eye confused.
"I'm one of those rich brats that grew up on a farm until she was eight. My parents and there siblings didn't get along very well so when they were all tragically killed in your everyday household fire I laughed my ass off before realizing that meant me and my sister and parents were the new heir's. Then I started crying." Miranda chuckled. Haruhi was taken back.
"Why would you cry?" Haruhi wondered.
"Fashion never has nor will it ever be my kinda thing. That's Hannah's thing." Miranda sighed.
"Why were you'll fighting?" Haruhi continued with her questions.
"I have blackmail material on everyone I know. I prefer to be in control. She got ticked off that I do it. But it's not like I'm going to use it for bad things. It's just a layer of protection. After that I do brute force. Nobody's ever gotten past that." Miranda smiled lightly. Miranda's phone rang. "Excuse me, I need to take this." Miranda got up but paused and glared intently at a building. A loud gun shot sounded and Miranda grabbed Haruhi and hid the brunette behind her. Miranda's gaze turned to where the gun-shooter was and smirked.
"C'mon we need to get out of here!" Haruhi yelled at Miranda trying to drag away the stiff girl but found that Miranda was rooted into place the weirdest part being that she was smiling.
"I am so sorry. I didn't mean to drag you into this mess. Please pardon me but it would be best if I walked you home. Although the danger is past." Miranda turned to Haruhi and gave a polite bow.
"What?" Haruhi was dumbfounded.
"Right, let me properly introduce myself. I am Miranda Eika. A demon known as 'The Fallen Angel'. I'm one of the last few and my secondary mission in life is to protect innocents from demons who wish to harm innocents. My sister and I came here to eliminate one that has killed local children. It was supposed to be the bait but they had there sights on you first so I'm afraid to admit that I was using you. But again there's no need to worry. The threat has been eliminated." Miranda explained herself with a smile.
"Yo idiot! What were you thinking! If I had been here in sixty seconds you'd be dead!" A look-alike of Miranda came running. Hannah was furious.
"What's going on..?" Haruhi was even more confused now.
"Sorry about that miss. We'll take you home and there's no need to worry. But wow. They couldn't do that much? That's the easiest mission so far!" Hannah high-fived her sister with a wide smile. A stuffed plushy of what looked like the Pokémon Ditto was clipped onto her belt.
"So all is forgiven then! Sorry for my attitude, Hannah! It's just supposed to be protection! I'd never use it against you!" Miranda hugged Hannah with a smile. Haruhi sighed and turned to leave but was followed by the twin girls.
"Hannah this is Haruhi. Haruhi, this is Hannah." Miranda introduced the two.
"Are you'll really half-demons?" Haruhi asked with a disbelieving tone. Both twins nodded.
"You can't see demons but there everywhere. You need to be scratched by a demon or something like that to see them. Sadly that means even if we changes only if we scratched you would you be able to see us for us. But were not like that! We don't hurt humans unless they have the intent or hurting us or killing us." Miranda and Hannah smiled and spoke together.
"Right. Well were here. Goodbye! And stay out of trouble." Haruhi told the twin girls.
"That's impossible. But it's our vacation so we'll try. We'll see you again Haruhi." Miranda and Hannah left just as Haruhi's dad came out and cried about his daughter's safety (the shooting had already gone viral at this point somehow).
"Hannah, that was way to easy. Even the stupid everyday police could've caught him." Miranda looked towards the sky.
"No, we just caught him off guard. He had no idea that we were here. Otherwise any other demon would've high-tailed it out of there. In any case we should let Shiro know. I'm Shura would like to as well. It's been awhile since we saw Yukio and Rin to!" Hannah thought of her friends.
"Really? We saw them two weeks ago!" Miranda exclaimed.
"I know! It's so tragically long! We should visit them more often!" Hannah declared.
"Are you kidding me?! I don't want to be anywhere near those holy idiots! I've had far too much holiness in my lifetime anyway!" Miranda complained.
"But in any case, we need to give them a call. You know tell them were done with the mission and tell them we need to get on with our lives, need a vacation after all these years, yada yada yada." Hannah shrugged turning serious.
"Hannah you're talking like an old person again..! It's not been THAT long since we joined." Miranda whined.
"Whatever." Hannah rolled her eyes with an amused smile and dialed a number on her phone.
"Hello?" A voice came from the other end.
"Ah, hello Shura! Because Miranda and I are supposed to be on vacation and have already shot the demon-" Hannah started.
"YOU SHOT THE DEMON?!" Shura yelled. Hannah pulled the phone away from her ear.
"Well duh. I'm a Dragoon and Aria." Hannah deadpanned.
"I know that, but you SHOT the demon! The demon killed off a few of our exorcist's already! You just waltzed right in there and shot him!" Shura sighed.
"Again, duh. Besides if I didn't shoot him then Miranda would've pulled out of those damn swords. Or worse. Plus, the guy had his sights on a new target already so it saved us the time of catching his attention and neither of us had to be bait!" Hannah assured Shura but did very little help.
"I guess case closed." Shura said.
"Not yet. Miranda has a really bad feeling about all of this. She even considered dropping out of this mission. There might be more to it. So our vacation time doesn't start until after this feeling goes away." Hannah told Shura in a dark tone.
"But it's probably just a feeling. It happens sometimes." Shura grew irritated with the twins. Hannah twitched now simmering with anger. Miranda watched without a care seeing as how Shura always managed to get under Hannah's skin.
"I don't suppose you remember the last time she had this feeling? Do you remember how angry and horrified you were when they small mountain village was completely wiped out. Miranda had that feeling then and if we had bothered to do something about it maybe we would've saved it. The time before last Miranda was nearly killed! If you give me that crap ever again I will come and slit your throat." Hannah growled through the phone.
"Fine. Would you like me to come and help or someone else?" Shura asked. Miranda snatched the phone away from Hannah.
"Listen close and listen well. We never asked and never will ask for you to care. We've done just fine getting on with our lives without your help or anyone else. We don't need help. This isn't France two years ago, got that?! We've got everything under control and there's no use lecturing us. We ignore it anyway, so you might as well save your breath. Just tell everyone at the True Cross Order that were looking into it and are making sure the killing's are permanently over with. Once were done we'll hand in a report and be on our way. Now if you'll don't leave us alone for the next few months somebody id going to die and it's not going to be a demon or an innocent." Miranda warned Shura darkly.
"Alright!" Shura hid the nervousness in her tone.
"Alright then! Have fun! We'll see you when we hand in our report and after vacation. Bye!" Miranda said cheerily before hanging up. The twins would've laughed if they had seen the look Shura gave the phone when Miranda hung up.
"As much I know we should heed your feelings, I can't help but think that maybe were overreacting." Hannah gave a sigh. "Did you have to be so bipolar?" Hannah added with a raised eyebrow. Cherry petals appeared out of nowhere and drifted past Miranda alone.
"Of course. For you see, it's who I am! I should follow my path all the way to the end! One of my great missions in life is to be who I am. All beauty is fleeting from this world! It is best to cherish and make the best of the time before it is gone forever! The beauty of a human and demon's alike true self is one of the most beautiful moments. To find yourself, is one of the greatest discovery's you can find!" Miranda exclaimed sparkling. Hannah stared.
"... I'm confiscating your SMT games." Hannah deadpanned. Miranda's jaw dropped and the cherry petals disappeared just as mysteriously as they had arrived.
"NOOOO! PLEASE DON'T!" Miranda begged throwing herself on Hannah.
"I won't. I just wanted to see your reaction!" Hannah laughed hysterically at Miranda.
"You know what?" Miranda said with a sly grin making Hannah freeze. Miranda took off shouting, "I'M LOCKING YOU OUT!"
"Ack! I'm sorry please don't lock me out again!" Hannah chased after her twin.
Chi: That went beautifully. :3
Hannah: Are you kidding me?! We (sorta) got into a fight! Do you have any idea how long I was stuck outside?!
Chi: Oh, pipe down. It was fall. Winter hasn't quite hit yet.
Hannah: YET!
Chi: I could go back and make it winter if you'd like.
Hannah: Ffff.
Chi R&R! :3 I DON'T OWN ANY SMT GAMES (I just love them all to death)!